... time. In 1842 he toured America and took it by storm. His six-month trip bore literary fruit: the controversial and unflattering American Notes (1842) and the slyly devastating American episode in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44). He published A Christmas Carol in December 1843, the first of ... while Sydney Carton makes his final sacrifice and is taking to the guillotine in place of Darnay. Summary of the Standard Historical Source The French Revolution is a cataclysmic political and social upheaval, extending from 1789 to1799. The revolution resulted, among other things, in the overthrow of...

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... by other English writers such as Shakespeare, Tobias Smollett, Oliver Goldsmith, and Henry Fielding. At this time, Dickens began submitting "penny-a-line" material (whereby writers were paid per line for their work) to the British Press. Such submissions largely took the form of factual information about fires, accidents, and police reports. Dickens took great pride in meeting deadlines and beating ... the "Sketches" at once become, that the first edition was exhausted in a few months. These sketches showed Dickens' rich humor. They also set Dickens's reputation as a "flaneur," the Frenc...

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... by Carlyle as one to who "the four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Roman enigmas to him-, Bleak House notes how it must be strange for a figure like Jo "to see people read and not to have the least idea of all that language -to be every ... has bread them all the more poignant. In fact the idea of the upsurges in Europe penetrating England is forewarned in the appearance of the French serving woman, Hortense. She is described by Esther as "some woman from the streets of Paris in the reign of terror". (BH 368) ... "cap-tweaking, foot shuffling and reassuringly unrevolutiona...

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